A Scandal in Bohemia
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

Like all of the Sherlock Holmes stories, "A Scandal in Bohemia" belongs to the genre of detective fiction. This is a genre that comes with many concrete expectations. When picking up a work of detective fiction, a reader typically expects a crime or mystery of some kind, a character that serves as an investigator either formally or informally, false suspects (or false suspected explanations), a plot twist, and finally a resolution.